Symposia
Dissemination & Implementation Science
Jacqueline B. Persons, Ph.D. (she/her/hers)
Director
Oakland CBT Center/UC Berkeley Department of Psychology
Oakland, California
Kelsie H. Okamura, Ph.D.
Judge Baker Children's Center
Honolulu, Hawaii
Regine Galanti, PhD
Director, Long Island Behavioral Psychology
Long Island Behavioral Psychology
Cedarhurst, New York
Travis L. Osborne, Ph.D.
Clinical Director; Co-Director of Research and Outcomes Monitoring
Evidence Based Treatment Centers of Seattle
Seattle, Washington
Robert Reiser, PhD
Psychologist
Reiser Healthcare Consulting
Kentfield, California
Jocelyn Sze, PhD
Psychologist
Bay Area Trauma Recovery Clinical Services
Berkeley, California
Mental health practitioners are slow to adopt evidence-based practices. Most practitioners do not have easy access to the scientific literature nor the time to seek out and digest reports of new findings that are relevant to their work. To address these problems, the Committee on Science in Practice of the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology (SSCP) (section 3 of Division 12 of the APA) developed a series of brief (about 5 min) YouTube clips that provide small and easily digestible bits of information about evidence-based developments in psychotherapy. The clips consist of highlights of audio interviews that the first author conducted with 4 noted clinical scientists about their recent findings (Michelle G. Craske on inhibitory learning, Edward R. Watkins on rumination-focused cognitive therapy for depression, Michael J. Lambert on monitoring progress, and Emily A. Holmes on using imagery in therapy). We sought to create brief tidbits of learning that clinicians could easily imbibe between patient sessions and incorporate directly into their clinical work. These types of training materials are particularly useful during pandemic times when attending in-person training events is difficult.
We are beginning to disseminate all clips via Twitter and Facebook and email listservs. We will collect and report in the symposium the YouTube analytics for each clip, including how many times it was accessed, how long it was viewed, and the source (listserv or Twitter, for example) that led the person to the YouTube clip. We have collected some pilot data and will have several months of data to report when we present in November. We will report our data evaluating whether social media dissemination is superior to listserv dissemination at reaching professionals, and other lessons learned that can advance our field’s ability to disseminate scientific findings about mental health treatment to front-line practitioners.